How do you read one book a week? Leaders are readers. The challenge is, the average person reads about two books a year, but the average CEO reads about four to six books a month. So, how do you get to this point where you're getting to one book a week? One of the reasons why I'm so excited about reading is because if somebody has decades of experience and they put it into a book, and you can sit down in a day or two and read that book, you can download decades of knowledge in days.
Right? So, you have such a huge advantage. So, how do you read one book a week without speed reading? Well, here's a secret, look at the numbers. Right? I went onto Amazon, I found out that the medium number of words per book is about 64,000 words, and the average person... Like, we teach speed-reading all around the world, in 150 different countries online. The average person reads about 200 words per minute. So now, when you divide 64,000 words per book by 200 words a minute, it comes out to be about 320 minutes, 320 minutes to get through a book of 64,000 words. But how many words is that a day? Divide by 7, you get about 45 minutes a day, 45 minutes of reading a day, and you get through one book a week. Now, that's much more manageable. But here's the secret, is you have to schedule it. You must schedule this time, because if you say, "Oh, I'm going to read here or there," it never really happens, because it's more of a dream or it's an interest. But when you schedule it, it's in your appointment book, it's in your calendar, this is time for you.
It's like time you would have with your boss or an investor, or somebody...a family member, somebody that's so important that you would never cancel on that. Because you reading is a form of self-care, and I believe that self-love and self-care is not selfish. So, you want to be a lifelong learner? Schedule 45 minutes a day. Now, if you happen to be a faster reader, you can do it in maybe 30 minutes, or maybe 15 minutes. It doesn't take as much as you think. And one more important point, when you're scheduling your reading time, make sure you schedule it around a time when you're awake. Right? Most people use reading as a sedative late at night, and they have this association of something that puts them to sleep. That's not the time that you want to be able to do it. When you're awake, when you're alert, schedule it, 45 minutes a day, and you get the job done.
So remember, leaders are readers. If knowledge is power, reading is your superpower. Hi, my name is Kevin Clarke, I went to become one of the world's leading coaches. Over the past 25 years, I've developed all of these strategies and techniques to unleash the power of your superbrain. I want to share these techniques and methods with you. I hope you'll join me.